The Year of My Returning Home: Tell You the True China
I wrote this novel a long time ago but put aside for twenty years (1991-2011) because I know that this kind of writing wouldn't be permitted by the Chinese Communist Party. Now I've been a little clever. I give myself a "jerky shake" to change the novel title into a long, long letter to my close friends in the USA in privacy. This change does somewhat alleviate my anxiety on the politics. And this type of "jerky shake" that Chinese Communist Party had done well in the 1990's. However I didn't tell any lies in the letter just as the narration I wrote in my story, "Honestly, I should declare that I haven't framed a plot or told a lie in this long, long letter. I do know my American friends love my country so much and I would rather not burn their hearts with fakes, so I feel very calm, too."
During the same twenty-year span that I put aside my novel, China has grown into the second largest economic power in this world. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of Chinese (less than 0.5%) have fortunately managed to own a big bulk of China's social wealth (more than 65%).
So I would like to tell my college girlfriend that your lovely daddy is really a great foreteller.
Would you like to know what my girlfriend's father had predicated over 40 years ago? Please turn to page 65 in the book.
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Joe Joy was born in Xiou Yan county of China in 1942. He didn't accept a high school education because he was disgraced in the Anti-rightist campaign of Chairman Mao's period as a problematic junior school student (15 years old). Instead, he was sent to a vocational school to learn how to raise fresh water fish. In 1962 he passed a national exam by teaching himself Medicine. After graduation, he rejoined the same political campaign of Chairman Mao, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This time he was assigned to an ill-located small rural hospital with his wife to serve poor farmers for 11 years. In 1979 he reentered the college for a postgraduate training and then he became a college teacher. In 1989, just before the June 4 incident, he was invited by UCSF as a visiting Professor. After returning home, he wrote t
his story.
He also earned a US master degree majoring in Psychology in his mid-fifties. Now he is retired and is residing in New Jersey with his wife.
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During the same twenty-year span that I put aside my novel, China has grown into the second largest economic power in this world. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of Chinese (less than 0.5%) have fortunately managed to own a big bulk of China's social wealth (more than 65%).
So I would like to tell my college girlfriend that your lovely daddy is really a great foreteller.
Would you like to know what my girlfriend's father had predicated over 40 years ago? Please turn to page 65 in the book.
l
Joe Joy was born in Xiou Yan county of China in 1942. He didn't accept a high school education because he was disgraced in the Anti-rightist campaign of Chairman Mao's period as a problematic junior school student (15 years old). Instead, he was sent to a vocational school to learn how to raise fresh water fish. In 1962 he passed a national exam by teaching himself Medicine. After graduation, he rejoined the same political campaign of Chairman Mao, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This time he was assigned to an ill-located small rural hospital with his wife to serve poor farmers for 11 years. In 1979 he reentered the college for a postgraduate training and then he became a college teacher. In 1989, just before the June 4 incident, he was invited by UCSF as a visiting Professor. After returning home, he wrote t
his story.
He also earned a US master degree majoring in Psychology in his mid-fifties. Now he is retired and is residing in New Jersey with his wife.
The Year of My Returning Home: Tell You the True China
I wrote this novel a long time ago but put aside for twenty years (1991-2011) because I know that this kind of writing wouldn't be permitted by the Chinese Communist Party. Now I've been a little clever. I give myself a "jerky shake" to change the novel title into a long, long letter to my close friends in the USA in privacy. This change does somewhat alleviate my anxiety on the politics. And this type of "jerky shake" that Chinese Communist Party had done well in the 1990's. However I didn't tell any lies in the letter just as the narration I wrote in my story, "Honestly, I should declare that I haven't framed a plot or told a lie in this long, long letter. I do know my American friends love my country so much and I would rather not burn their hearts with fakes, so I feel very calm, too."
During the same twenty-year span that I put aside my novel, China has grown into the second largest economic power in this world. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of Chinese (less than 0.5%) have fortunately managed to own a big bulk of China's social wealth (more than 65%).
So I would like to tell my college girlfriend that your lovely daddy is really a great foreteller.
Would you like to know what my girlfriend's father had predicated over 40 years ago? Please turn to page 65 in the book.
l
Joe Joy was born in Xiou Yan county of China in 1942. He didn't accept a high school education because he was disgraced in the Anti-rightist campaign of Chairman Mao's period as a problematic junior school student (15 years old). Instead, he was sent to a vocational school to learn how to raise fresh water fish. In 1962 he passed a national exam by teaching himself Medicine. After graduation, he rejoined the same political campaign of Chairman Mao, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This time he was assigned to an ill-located small rural hospital with his wife to serve poor farmers for 11 years. In 1979 he reentered the college for a postgraduate training and then he became a college teacher. In 1989, just before the June 4 incident, he was invited by UCSF as a visiting Professor. After returning home, he wrote t
his story.
He also earned a US master degree majoring in Psychology in his mid-fifties. Now he is retired and is residing in New Jersey with his wife.
During the same twenty-year span that I put aside my novel, China has grown into the second largest economic power in this world. Unfortunately, only a very small percentage of Chinese (less than 0.5%) have fortunately managed to own a big bulk of China's social wealth (more than 65%).
So I would like to tell my college girlfriend that your lovely daddy is really a great foreteller.
Would you like to know what my girlfriend's father had predicated over 40 years ago? Please turn to page 65 in the book.
l
Joe Joy was born in Xiou Yan county of China in 1942. He didn't accept a high school education because he was disgraced in the Anti-rightist campaign of Chairman Mao's period as a problematic junior school student (15 years old). Instead, he was sent to a vocational school to learn how to raise fresh water fish. In 1962 he passed a national exam by teaching himself Medicine. After graduation, he rejoined the same political campaign of Chairman Mao, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This time he was assigned to an ill-located small rural hospital with his wife to serve poor farmers for 11 years. In 1979 he reentered the college for a postgraduate training and then he became a college teacher. In 1989, just before the June 4 incident, he was invited by UCSF as a visiting Professor. After returning home, he wrote t
his story.
He also earned a US master degree majoring in Psychology in his mid-fifties. Now he is retired and is residing in New Jersey with his wife.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781456880606 |
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| Publisher: | Xlibris Corporation |
| Publication date: | 07/22/2011 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 464 KB |
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